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Robert Christopher Sarvis (born September 15, 1976) is an American attorney, businessman, politician and software developer. While attending law school, he was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the ''NYU Journal of Law & Liberty''; he also clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In addition, he has been a software developer, being named by Google as a Grand Prize Winner for their Android Development challenge. In 2011, he ran for the Virginia Senate as a Republican, losing to Democrat Dick Saslaw; after the election, Sarvis switched to the Libertarian Party. He was the Libertarian Party of Virginia's nominee for Governor of Virginia in the 2013 election, finishing third behind Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Candidates - Robert Sarvis )〕 and he was the nominee for the U.S. Senate in the 2014 midterm election. ==Early life and education== Sarvis was born on September 15, 1976 in Fairfax, Virginia to a father of English and Irish descent and a mother of Chinese descent. Growing up in West Springfield, he attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a public magnet school and one of Virginia's "Governor's schools".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 About Robert Sarvis )〕 In his senior year at Thomas Jefferson, Sarvis placed fourth in the 1994 Westinghouse Science Talent Search for a theoretical math project studying lattices, winning a $15,000 scholarship. Upon graduating from high school, Sarvis attended Harvard University, pursuing a bachelor's degree in mathematics and graduated in 1998. He won a prestigious Harvard College Scholarship, reserved for the top 10% of a class.〔 Sarvis earned a Master of Advanced Studies degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in England (the University of Cambridge began offering the master of advanced study in 2010 as a one-year master's degree in Mathematics as a replacement for the "Part III exam in Mathematics"). He briefly enrolled in a doctorate program at the University of California, Berkeley, leaving to join a Silicon Valley-based technology start-up as a software developer. In 2002, Sarvis enrolled at the New York University School of Law, graduating with a J.D. in 2005. During his time at NYU, Sarvis co-founded and became editor-in-chief of the ( ''NYU Journal of Law & Liberty'' ), a student-run, conservative-libertarian law review.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty )〕 Sarvis was also awarded a "Vanderbilt Medal"〔 during law school for his work on the ''Journal'', an honor reserved for those "who have distinguished themselves in their commitment to the Law School through their work in student groups, journals, or other Law School activities and events."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Convocation Award Nominations )〕 He was a member of the Federalist Society while at NYU, helping sponsor events such as a legal debate "on the legal foundations and implications of recent lawsuits against fast food restaurants, gun manufacturers, and cigarette makers." Sarvis earned a Master's degree in economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Sarvis is also a Searle Freedom Trust Fellow and served as a fellow at George Mason's Mercatus Center for research.〔 His teaching careers also include time as a teaching fellow in the Harvard math department, a course assistant for calculus at UC Berkeley as well as an algebra teacher at Western Career College, now known as Carrington College California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Sarvis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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